This paper reviews evidence on two serious imbalances in the UK education and training
system: The heavy bias in public spending on initial education and training (for 18–24-year …

We study the UK's university application system, in which students apply based on predicted
examination grades, rather than actual results. Using three years of UK university …

In our annual series of reports on education spending, funded by the Nuffield Foundation,
we bring together data on education spending per student across the life cycle and provide …

Going to university is a very good investment for most students. Over their working lives, men
will be£ 130,000 better off on average by going to university after taxes, student loan …

Going beyond a focus on individual‐level employment outcomes, we investigate couples'
changing work patterns in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) during the …

This article considers inequalities across racial and ethnic groups in the UK and finds that
there is no single story of advantage or disadvantage. Racial and ethnic inequalities are …

This paper provides the first quantitative analysis on 'first in family'(FiF) university graduates
in the UK. Using a nationally representative dataset that covers a recent cohort in England …

This article provides new insights into the role played by higher education (HE) selection
policies in influencing student retention by exploring drop-out patterns in Ireland and …

In the Anglophone jurisdictions, higher education policy is over-determined by economic
policy and subjected to neoliberal regulation based on quasi-market competition between …

This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using
linked administrative data from schools, universities, and tax authorities. We analyze two …